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Facing rapid urban expansion, NGOs, neighbourhood committees and civil society actors joined forces with the municipal government to develop a Sustainable Development Plan into which the Participatory Budget was integrated in 1999.

During the late 1990’s the terrorist group, Shining Path had declined and Peru's authoritarian rule was reaching its end. In this context, the officials of Villa El Salvador began using participatory budgeting (PB) as a means to respond to the rampant corruption that occurred during the Fujimori administration.

The Participatory Urban Planning “The Auckland Plan” was a process organized by the Auckland Council in Auckland, New Zealand that also includes the region's extensive coastal and maritime areas. Citizens were invited to add ideas and views on key social, economic, environmental, cultural and urban growth issues to turn Auckland...